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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...rench invade Lorraine. — Frankfort taken. — Capitulation of Mentz. — Tilly ordered by Maximilian to protect Bavaria. — Gustavus Adolphus passes the Le... ...n destroyed. An interest more intense and more immediate than national ag- grandizement or patriotism, and entirely inde- pendent of private utility, ... ...s of the Loire and the Seine, the succession of the French crown. The Dane crosses the Eider, and the Swede the Baltic, to break the chains which are ... ... agreement, in order to avert the common danger. They agreed to govern the duchy con- jointly. In vain did the Emperor prohibit the Estates from doing... ...tle of a chimera, which men have so liberally bestowed upon it; but did it merit that appellation in the second? It had never entered into the head of... ...ourth day, and obtained from the magnanimity of Gustavus a safe conduct to Luxembourg; the greater part of them, however, following the example of man...